yamane: people have asked me if there are any ohlone songs that have been sung when we are gathering materials, but the fact is if there were, that knowledge has not been passed down to the present time. i have actually created my own song using our language that i always sing before i leave, and it is telling the sedges thank you and telling it that the sedges are beautiful and it's a beautiful sedge place, which it is. ha ha! [singing in ohlone language] risling-baldy: there's a lot of california indian stories that talk about how human beings were given the voice, so our job was to speak on behalf of all of the animals, all of the trees and the rivers and the rocks to make sure that they were going to be safe. so i think our languages, being that place-based and being that old, what you see is that our knowledge is really enveloped into that. so when we have a name for something, it will generally tell you things like where does it grow, why does it grow that way, what does it do, what do we use it for? we'll have different words for different uses of things, so there's the plant